On Sunday, over 15.1 million Chileans will decide whether to approve or reject the new Constitution. If the "I Approve" option prevails, the text will replace the Constitution drafted by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. If the "I Reject" option wins, the current Constitution will remain in force.

If the latter happens, President Gabriel Boric is expected to convene a new constitutional process to comply with the mandate of the 2020 plebiscite, in which almost 80 percent of Chileans called for a constitutional change. Below are the main events of this voting day as they happen.

12:25. "The world is watching us," says former student leader. Camilla Vallejo, the Minister General Secretariat of Government, gave her impression of the plebiscite's first hours: "The world is watching us and whatever the outcome, what we have achieved as a country is wonderful. We have managed to start this process and walk together a path that is historic."

12:00 am. The "I Approve" option is prevailing abroad. According to preliminary exit poll results, the "I Approve" option is winning among Chileans who vote abroad. That is the case, for example, in New Zealand where 75.8 percent of voters are in favor of the new Constitution. The same happens in South Korea (63.7 percent), Australia (66.8 percent), Japan (67.4 percent), and Malaysia (45.5 percent).

10:00 am: Crew of the film Blanquita supports the new Constitution. In a brief but very emotional act on Sunday, Director Fernando Guzzoni and the crew of the film "Blanquita" unfurled a flag in support of the new constitution as they walked down the red carpet to the film's premiere at the 79th Venice Film Festival, in Italy.

09:00 am: Over half a million foreigners vote in the Chilean referendum. Electoral authorities informed that 514,623 foreign voters are expected to vote on the Chilean constitutional plebiscite. This figure represents an increase of over 125,000 people compared to 2019, when social protests triggered the current constituent process.

Peruvians, Colombians, and Bolivians are the ones with the greatest presence in the vote. Compared to 2020, when the Constituent Assembly was prepared, the largest percentage increases correspond to Haitians, Colombians, Portuguese, Filipinos, and Hondurans.

08:00 a.m. Almost all the polling stations are operating. Chile's Electoral Service (SERVEL) informed that 99.75 percent of polling stations are already operational. Atacama, O'Higgins, Maule, Araucanía, Los Rios, and Magallanes were the first regions to have 100 percent of the polling stations in operation. The most delayed region was Coquimbo

The Constitutional prebiscite is carried out in 38,472 polling stations located throughout the country. Citizens will be able to cast their vote until 6:00 p.m. Since their participation is mandatory, people who do not vote will be fined about US$200.